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Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus
Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...
Russian Betrayal of All Its Treaties in 1939: NYTimes archival article
The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...
Scythian Pegasus: Chertomlyk Silver Vase
Chertomlyk Amphora The vase was discovered during the initial excavations of the Chertomlyk Royal Scythian Kurgan in Ukraine in 1862. The video on this channel...
Scythian Language: Proto-Indo-European, NOT Iranian
Scythian Theory Boxhorn In 1647, Leiden professor of eloquence Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn published a dissertation arguing for the Scythian origin of the Greek, Roman, and...
Scythian Supreme Goddess Tabiti: The only Indo-Aryan female Fire Deity
Herodotus According to Greek historian Herodotus, the Scythian religion centered on seven divinities. He described them in the following way: The only gods the Scythians try...
Scythian Cavalry Heavy Armor: What museum recreation revealed
Gladkivshchina Kurgan #2 In 1982, researchers explored a burial site unique in its composition and state of preservation near the village of Gladkovshchina in central...
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John Steinbeck depicts Ukrainian women
“On the way to our hotel we noticed, as everyone does, that the
Ukrainian girls are very pretty, mostly blond, with fine womanly figures. They
have...
In 1710 the Ukrainian Cossacks drafted one of Europe’s first state...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
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55th Anniversary of the Scythian Gold Pectoral discovery! [June 21, 1971]
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Two Ukrainians Launched World’s First Satellite into Space Oct. 04, 1957....
A Soviet newspaper of early October, 1957: "On 4 October 1957 at 10:28 p.m. Moscow time a violent flash of light illuminated the night...
10th-century Easter Egg from Kyiv Rus discovered in Sweden
"Glazed ceramic Resurrection egg. The egg is made of glazed fired clay. It varies in colour from bright chocolate brown to dark green. The...
Rus were Sarmatian Roxolani: They fought in Trajan’s Dacian Wars and...
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